Reactive LED strip code testing

With the hardware that Harry borrowed us I started to make the first code tests.

Test 1: LED stripe blinking with the rythm of the music.

First I did some research and I found some projects similar to ours.

This first project I found looked like could suit our needs

After trying it with both microphones and after doing some testing playing music with the phone it looked like it was working but it was more like an illusion because when we stopped the music it continued blinking. I am not 100% if it was because of the bad microphone or the code needs more adjustments. Despite any of those two scenarios I do not think it would work properly in the middle of the street with all the noise of the people.

Test 2: LED stripe emulating an equalizer

On our first ideas was to add equalizers to the letter so it would react to the music playing so I thought it was a good idea to give it a try with an LED strip.

I followed this tutorial but the end result was awful, I was not able to adjust the variables to make the strip to react properly, like the first test I am not 100% if it was because of the bad microphone or the code needs even more adjustments.

Since we do not have a lot of time one of the safest and best options is to use a premade one.

Final note: I tried between 4-6 more projects similar to the ones above but this two test were the most relevant, the others were either or too simple or too complex to try them.